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Update: Victoria university’s hard drives found with thieves’ note

Posted on January 27, 2012 by Dissent

Some of the computer devices stolen from the University of Victoria earlier this month have been recovered, along with a repentant note from the thieves that police are finding hard to believe.

A postal worker found the hard drives and other computer devices in a green garbage bag stuffed in a mailbox in the nearby suburb of Langford on Tuesday.

Read more on CBC News.


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